Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis (Valley Fever): The Ill ...•Of the 28pts, there were no false +...
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Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis
(Valley Fever):
The Ill Wind Blows
Michael A. Saubolle, Ph.D. D(ABMM), F(AAM), F(IDSA)
Medical Director, Infectious Diseases Division
Laboratory Sciences of Arizona/Banner Health System
Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine
University of Arizona College of Medicine
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o Clinical Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis often
difficult as presentation can be protean
o Most presentations are of a respiratory nature but often
can’t separate from other respiratory infections
o At times patient does not realize that he/she has more
than a virus until progression occurs
o As we have heard it may take months before a true
diagnosis is made
o Must have high degree of suspicion and must
understand laboratory studies (pros/cons; shortcomings)
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Case 1: Pulmonary Presentation
• A 52 y/o caucasian male presented moderately ill with
pneumonia: chest X-ray showed a unilateral infiltrate
• Sputum Gram-stain showed many WBCs and light
oropharyngeal contamination/without any PO
associated with WBCs
• Sputum culture grew light growth of oropharyngeal
flora
• The patient was treated with ceftriaxone and
erythromycin for two days and sent home in stable
condition on oral levofloxacin.
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Case 1: Pulmonary Presentation
• After initial improvement the patient continued to to
have fevers and showed persistence of the infiltrate.
• He was seen by a pulmonologist for further workup
and underwent a BAL.
• Routine, fungal and AFB cultures failed to determine
the etiology after 4 weks incubtion.
• Coccy serologies were negative at 1, 2 and 3 weeks
after initial presentation.
• After the 4th week the IMDF IgM turned positive and a
week later both the IMDF IgG and the CF titer turned
positive (at only 1:2).
• At 6 weeks the CF titer peaked at 1:4
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Case 1: Pulmonary Presentation
• The patient began to defervesce without specific
antifungal therapy and was seemingly normal after a
total of ten weeks.
• The patient did well for a period of 4 years without any
specific symptoms (but he did complain of tiredeness
and some night sweats; he had no fever and now had
negative IMDF and CF serologies.
• Significantly, his SED rate continued to be elevated.
• After 4 years, the patient suddenly complained of pain
in his ankle.
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Case 1: Pulmonary Presentation
• He presented without any fever but with increased
WBC count and some eosinophilia.
• A scan of his ankle revealed a localized osteomyelitis.
• His Coccy CF serologies were now at 1:2 and became
1:4 two weeks later.
• He had no new pulmonary infiltrates.
• Therapy with high dose fluconazole ameliorated the
pain and reduced the CF titer to 1:2 three weeks later
and negative at six weeks. He was kept on fluconazole
for six months and showed no symptoms other than a
continued elevated SED rate.
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Case 1: Pulmonary Presentation
• His fluconazole was stopped after 8 months; within
three weeks his ankle pain returned and his CF titer
became elevated at 1:2 (Davis Lab).
• He was placed on fluconazole and remained on
fluconazole until his death 10 years later from other
unrelated causes.
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Coccidioidomycosis
The Mycology
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Dimorphic fungus found
in sandy soil:
C. immitis (CA)
C. posadasii (other)
• Spherules: 10-80 um
• Endospores: 2-5 um
• Arthroconidia:
2-5 by 3-6 um
• Temp-independent
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Disjunctor Cell
Arthroconidium
Grocott methenamine silver (GMS) stain
of tissue from edge of cavitary lung
lesion (x450)
Spherule phase
Endospore phase
Mycelium phase
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Estimated:
• 150,000 cases in US/yr
• 90,000 (60%) in AZ
P. Q. Edwards and C. E. Palmer. Prevalence of sensitivity to coccidioidin, with special reference to
specific and nonspecific reactions to coccidioidin and to histoplasmin. Dis.Chest 31:35-60, 1957
Few spots in Utah
Now reported in
few cases from
high desert in
Washington
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Disease Estimates
• Estimated 150,000 cases in US annually
• 90,000 (60%) in Arizona
• 36,000 (40%) symptomatic AZ
cases/year
• Arizona had less than 5,000 reported
cases/yr in 07-08
• 54% male (81 cases/100,000)
• 46% female (68 cases/100,000)
From Arizona Dept. Health Services (Epidemiology)
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Issues with Coccidioidomycosis
in Arizona
• Although, 40% are symptomatic
• < 1/3 are clinically evaluated,
• It is estimated that only 8-10% of total
infections are serologically confirmed
• Only serologically confirmed are reported to
public health
Sunenshine, R. 08. AZ Dept. Health Services
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Advancing Arthroconidial Storm
(Haboob)
New Homes of
Unsuspecting
Virgin Population
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Coccidioidomycosis
The Infection
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Coccidioidomycosis
Spectrum of Disease
100 Infections
60 No Symptoms 40 Symptoms
37 Recover
2-4 Progress
Disseminate 3-4 Recur
Life-Long
Immunity
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Coccidioidomycosis
• Incubation 7-28 days
• Primary Pulmonary (asymptomatic to mild to severe;
erythema multiforme or nodosum usually good
prognostic signs)
• Disseminating
– Respiratory: pulmonary or extrapulmonary
(pleural, chest wall)
– Extrapulmonary: lymphatic, cutaneous,
subcutaneous, skeletal, CNS, cardiac, endocrine,
ophthalmic, urogenital
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Coccidioidal Lesion
Big Hearted
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Lymph node
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Coccidioidomycosis
Laboratory Diagnosis
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Laboratory Diagnosis (especially in CAP)
• Most beneficial for sicker patients (may benefit
most from Rx)
• Other benefits of Dx may include:
– Avoidance of use of bacterial antimicrobics
– Avoidance of use of corticosteroids
– Earlier identification of complications
– Decreased need for added expensive Dx studies
– Reduction in patient anxiety
Chang, et al. Emerg Infect Dis 2008;14:1053-9
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Coccidioidomycosis:
General Laboratory Diagnosis
• Hematologic
– elevated erythrocyte sedimentation rate
– eosinophilia
• Meningitis (CSF)
– variable overall increased cell count
– predominance of lymphocytes over PMNs
– low to moderate elevation of protein
– moderate decline in glucose
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Clinical Example: Case 2
• 67 y/o caucasian male presents to ED with
deterioration of mental status over past 4-5 days
• Skin lesion on forearm
• History of:
– Nursing home / COPD
– Cerebrovascular accident
– Ventriculoperitoneal shunt inserted 2 months
previously for normal pressure hydrocephalus
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Clinical Case 2 (continued)
• Temperature within normal limits
• MRI of brain consistent with meningitis
• Peripheral WBC count: 8,800/mm3 :
• CSF: 88/mm3
– 18% segs,
– 27% lymphs,
– 54% “other” cells noted as being
“plasmocytoid”
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Clinical Case (continued)
• CSF grew Coccidioides species (C. immitis / posadasii)
within 3 days
• CSF serologies showed a CF titer of 1:8
• Serum serologies showed a CF titer of 1:128
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Coccidioidomycosis:Laboratory Diagnosis
• Direct
– Microscopy (spherules; endospores; mycelial
forms)
– PCR (Mayo Clinic)
– urine, BAL (Coccidioides galactomannan antigen
EIA; MiraVista Labs- Joe Wheat) CID
2008;47:e69
• Serologic
• Skin Testing (recently FDA approved – should be
available early 2015)
• Culture (average time to recovery 4 days (2-16
days)
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Calcofluor White fluorescent stain X450
Gram stain with KOH x450
Spherules with
endospores
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Dr. Shuetz Cornell University
TNA lung
Gram Stain of sputum showing spherule
ghost
Gram stain of KOH treated sputum
showing mycelia
Methenamine
Silver stain
Wright differential stain on CSF
with endospores
Spherules and
mycelia
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PCR Detection of Coccidioides spp.
• No commercially available kits
• Paucity of published studies
• Binicker, et.al. real-time PCR (J CM. 2007;45:173)
– Respiratory (n=266): sens=100%; spec=98.4%
– Fresh tissue (n=66): sens=92.9%; spec=98.1%
– Paraffin tissue (n=148): sens=73.4%; spec=100%
– CSF poor
• TGen (Flagstaff, AZ) and NY Dept Health: not FDA
approved
– Detection and separation of both species
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Coccidioides Ag EIA
(MiraVista Diagnostics, Indiana; Joe Wheat)
• Rabbit anti-Coccidioides galactomannan Ab in
microplate wells / EIA
• Evaluated 22 pts with severe pneumonia and 2 pts
with disseminated disease
• Antigenuria detected in 70.8% using Coccidioides
EIA and 58.3% using Histoplasma EIA
• Specificity : 99.4 (healthy individuals)
• X-reaction with other endemic mycoses: 10.7%
Durkin, et. al. CID 2008;47:e69-73
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Coccidioidomycosis: Lab Diagnosis
– Grows on almost all fungal and bacterial agar and broth
media
– Incubation time (ambient air, 30oC) for 2-3 days to several
weeks (at LSA/SQL lab average time to recovery 4 days,
variation 2-16 days)
• Recovery by culture within specimen type:
– Respiratory specimens (8.3%)
– Other non-sterile body sites (2.5%)
– Other sterile body site (2.1%); Bone marrow (2.6%)
– CNS (0.9%); Blood (0.4%)
– Urinary (0.6%)
– Overall: Fungus culture – 71%; Bacterial culture: 29%
Saubolle and Sussland, unpublished LSA data, 2009
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Coccidioidomycosis: Lab ID
Identification
– Microscopic morphology of spherules
(presumptive) in specimen
– Genetic Probe (Gen-Probe, San Diego) rRNA (will not differentiate species)
Exoantigen
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Coccidioidomycosis: Serologic Dx
• Serologic studies are less sensitive then often thought, especially in self-limited clinical cases
• Positive serologies are helpful, but negative ones cannot be relied on to rule out disease, especially early in disease process.
• False positive serologies can occur, especially with EIA IgM studies
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Cell Mediated Immunity
Skin Test- Immunity
Serum Antibody Serum Antibody
Infection activity
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Coccidioidomycosis: Serologic Response
Cell mediated response (protective - immunity):
Skin testing with spherulin, coccidioidin (recently FDA
approved- should be available early 2015; indicates past
infection)
Humoral response (measures infection activity)
IgM (Tube Precipitin; polysaccharide is Ag): measurable earlier in acute phase usually between the first (50%) and third (90%) weeks of onset.
IgG (CF Ab; chitinase is Ag): becomes measurable between the 2nd and 28th week post onset. May remain for several months but is usually related to disease activity.
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Coccidioidomycosis - Serologies
Humoral Ab (indicates level of activity)
• Enzyme immunoassay (EIA)
– IgM (Tube Precipitin, Precipitin Ab)
– IgG (CF Ab)
• Immunodiffusion (IMDF)
– IgM and IgG
• Complement fixation (CF; mostly IgG) :
increasing titers correspond with activity
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Coccidioidomycosis:
Laboratory Diagnosis
Serology
Enzyme Immonassay (EIA)
•IgM (Tube Precipitin Ab)
•IgG (CF Ab)
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Coccidioidomycosis:
Laboratory Diagnosis
• Serology
• Immunodiffusion (IMDF) : IgM, IgG
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Coccidioidomycosis: Laboratory Diagnosis
• Serology
• Complement fixation (mostly IgG) : increasing
titers correspond with activity (least sensitive,
good to follow patients for disease activity)
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Comparison of
EIA, Immunodiffusion and CF Studies
Study method Sensitivity
EIA IgG 79%
EIA IgM 63%
EIA Combined 83%
ID 71%
CF 64%
Polage et. al. Abstract F-005, ASM Annual Meeting, 2006
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EIA IgM vs IgG Results
Blair, JE and JT Currier, Mycopathologia 2008;16677-82
• Of 706 total EIAs
• 37 (5%) EIAs on 28 pts had only IgM + (i.e. IgG -)
• Of the 28pts, there were no false + IgMs observed based on
other laboratory data (other serologies, culture and
histopathology)
Kuberski, T, J Herrig, and D. Pappagianis. J Clin Microbiol
2010;48: :2047-9 – 17 patients with EIA IgM + but IgG – studied by reviewing medical
records
– 5 pts were coded out at discharge as Coccy based solely on IgM+ (IgG -) and none were judged as Coccy by chart review.
– Of the pts with both IgM and IgG +, 12 (80%) were judged to have coccy infection based on chart review
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Comparison of EIA IgM and IgG results from two manufacturers (Kit A and kit B) using sera from the same patients divided among
three laboratories (two in Arizona & one in California) – Sunenshine, Khan, Saubolle, Lancaster, et. al.-2014
A. 150 sera from confirmed cocci cases were selected retrospectively and frozen
(Mike Lancaster, County Health Laboratory):
Laboratory confirmed with ID and/or Complement Fixation (CF).
Independently reviewed for clinical evidence of cocci by an infectious disease physician.
B. 50 remnant sera from CDC employees from non-endemic area (controls). C. Percent agreement:
Numerator: Number of times all three laboratories obtained the same
result (all negative or all positive) for a particular test (IgG or IgM)
using a particular test kit (Kits A or B) on a particular specimen. Denominator: 200 (total number of specimens); specimens with
indeterminate results counted as “negative”.
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Percent agreement for EIA IgM and IgG combined among
the three labs:
85.5% for kit A (90% for IgM and 89% for IgG)
70.5% for kit B (67% for IgM and 81%, for IgG alone)
Sensitivity for EIA IgM and IgG combined:
68.5% for kit A
72.4% for kit B
Specificity for EIA IgM and IgG combined:
99.3% for kit A
91.3% kit B
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Summary of Serological Assays
• Serological testing is the most commonly used diagnostic method and includes EIA, immunodiffusion (IMDF), and complement fixation (CF); sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value vary depending on laboratory methods
• EIA is the easiest and least expensive diagnostic test to perform, but sensitivity and specificity are not clearly defined
• Early in disease serologic studies can be falsely negative; additional testing 1-3 weeks later are crucial in suspected cases.
• False positives may occur, leading to additional diagnostic testing and unwelcome patient anxiety; repeat testing should be considered for EIA + & IMDF/CF- results
• IMDF may be used as a confirmatory test for positive EIA results by some laboratories as recommended by Kaufman et al.
See Lusk, Petein, Sunenshine, Erhart. Coccy Study Group 2013
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Clinical Case 3
Slide 1
• 50 y/o male brought to ED with mental status changes
and altered level of consciousness
– Slow to respond, sluggish pupils, no neck rigidity
• X-ray showed moderate right sided pleural effusion with
possible r-lung infiltrate as well as a VP shunt in place
for hydrocephaly (inserted previous year)
• History for:
– End-stage renal disease requiring hemodialysis
– Hydrocephalus
– Diabetes Mellitus requiring insulin
– Hypertension
– Coronary artery disease with a stent
– Hep C Ab + and past history of drug abuse
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Slide 2
• Differential diagnosis considered : VP shunt malfunction;
possible metabolic encephalopathy due to uremia;
community acquired pneumonia
• Started on Vanco and Pip-tazo for the possible CAP
• Lab data:
• Peripheral WBC of 12.8; pleural fluid WBC 700
• BCBs negative after 5 days
• CSF cloudy and submitted for culture
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Slide 3 – more history
Previous admission 4 months earlier:
• with complaints of shortness of breath for a week prior to
admission and a 25 lb weight gain over two months
• Chest X-ray showed bilateral opacities –considered to be
pulmonary edema
• Found to have heart failure and renal disease and started on
hemodialysis
• Was stabilized and released to be followed by nephrology and
cardiology
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Back to most recent admission:
• Differential Dx
– VP shunt infection – meningitis
– R lower lobe pneumonia
– Cultures:
• Urine – NG
• Pleural fluid – NG
• Blood x 3 - NG
• Serologies : Hep C +
• Aerobic cultures from VP shunt grew ?????
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Most recent admission:
• Differential Dx
– VP shunt infection – meningitis
– R lower lobe pneumonia
• Aerobic cultures from VP shunt grew
Coccidioides spp • CSF Coccy CF titer was 1-2 and 1-4 a week later
• Serum Coccy CF >256 (EIA IgM neg; IgG +; IMDF both +)
• BCBs remained negative
• Pleural fluid remained negative
• Patient started on AMB but switched to 800 mg IV
Fluconazole for 8 week
• Released once stable to be followed by ID, cardiology, etc
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o Clinical Diagnosis of Coccidioidomycosis often
difficult as presentation can be protean
o Most presentations are of a respiratory nature but often
can’t separate from other respiratory infections
o At times patient does not realize that he/she has more
than a virus until progression occurs
o It may take months before a true diagnosis is made
o Must have high degree of suspicion and must
understand laboratory studies (pros/cons; shortcomings)
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Coccidioidomycosis: Future Epidemiology
• Growing susceptible population
• Growing immunocompromised patient pool
• Expansion into desert
– (record new home starts)
• Increasing travel and tourism
• Better education
• Possible expansion of geographic distribution in future
Conclusion: future of coccy seems assured
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The END